Annual Meeting – Session Topics & Conveners

Biocatalysis

• Enzyme for biomass treatment
  Debbie Yaver, Novozymes
• Chemo-enzymatic approaches for product synthesis (hybrid)
  Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, University of Michigan
• Halogenases and dehalogenases
  Alfred Spormann, Stanford
• Enzyme engineering and directed evolution
  Nobuhiko Tokuriki, University of British Columbia
• Whole cell biocatalysis
  Pat Cirino, University of Houston

Fermentation and Cell Culture

• Cell Culture: CHO to stem cells
  Tiffany Rau, Pall Life Sciences
• Challenges in solid state fermentation
  Yahya Kargalioglu, Altria
• Evolution, adaptation, mutation and selection in fermention
  Helia Radianingtyas
• Fermentation of unrefined feedstocks
  David Hogsett, Mascoma
• Fermentation media design: Composition and feeding strategies
  Noel Fong, Cibus

Metabolic Engineering

• Bulk/Commodity Biochemicals from Renewable Resources
  Jan Pero, Myriant
• Specialty Chemicals/Materials from Renewable Resources
  Kris Prather, MIT
• Metabolic Engineering for Advanced Biofuels (I)
  Brian Pfleger, University of Wisconsin
• Metabolic Engineering for Advanced Biofuels (II)
• Metabolic Engineering of Extremophiles or organisms with less developed genetic systems
  Jan Westpheling, University of Georgia

Environmental Microbiology

• Zero waste technologies for Biofuels Production
  Rajesh Sani, South Dakota School of M&T
• Environmental Metagenomics
  Terry Hazen, University of Tennessee
• Advances in microbial fuel cells
  Enrico Marsili, Dublin City University
• Bioremediation and biodegradation
  Melanie Mormile, Missouri M&T
• Biohydrogen production
  Melanie Mormile, Missouri M&T

Natural Products

• Agri-chemicals
  Don Hahn, Dow AgroSciences
• Ribosomal and non-ribosmal peptides
  Doug Mitchell, University of Illinois
• Natural products from unusual sources
  David Newman, National Cancer Institute
• Bioengineering in drug discovery
  Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois
• Novel enzyme mechanisms in biosynthesis and secondary metabolism
  Satish Nair, University of Illinois

Special Topics

• Next generation DNA sequencing technologies and applications
  Jon Armstrong, Cofactor Genomics
• Computational, omics, and systems biology approaches to fermentation
  Anthony Burgard, Genomatica
• Synthetic biology tools and applications
  Chris Voigt, MIT
• Regulation of microbial gene expression by RNA and its potential for practical applications
  Shelley Copley, University of Colorado
• Women in industrial microbiology
  Joan Bennett, Rutgers
• Student oral presentations
  Laura Jarboe, Iowa State